Nathaly Sweeney

Title(s)	Associate Clinical Professor, Pediatrics
School	Vc-health Sciences-schools
Address	9500 Gilman Drive # La Jolla CA 92093
ORCID	0000000201826600
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Biography

education and training

University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA		12/2017	Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Stanford University, Stanford, CA		06/2013	Pediatric Cardiology
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD		06/2008	Pediatrics
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD	MPH	06/2005	Biostatistics
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY	MD	05/2004	Medicine
University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX	MS	05/1997	Biological Sciences
Springfield College, Springfield, MA	BS	05/1994	Rehabilitation Services

Overview

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Nathaly M. Sweeney, MD, MPH, MS, FAAP, is an associate professor of pediatrics in the neonatology division at the University of California San Diego (UCSD)/ Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego (RCHSD) and an investigator with the Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine (RCIGM).

Dr. Sweeney is board certified in general pediatrics, pediatric cardiology and neonatal-perinatal medicine. She earned her undergraduate degree from Springfield College, MA and her graduate degrees from the University of Texas at El Paso, TX and the Johns Hopkins University- Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD.

She obtained her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, NY, NY and completed her pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD.

Dr. Sweeney completed her pediatric cardiology fellowship at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital-Stanford University, Stanford, CA and her neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship at UCSD.

Dr. Sweeney is interested in the application of individualized medicine in the care of children with suspected genetic disease with a focus on the optimization of short and long-term outcomes in children with congenital heart disease.

Her research focuses on identifying genotypic differences via genomic sequencing that may explain the observed phenotypes with the goal of offering prompt, directed, accurate, personalized care to children in the intensive care unit and beyond.

Bibliographic

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A machine learning decision support tool optimizes WGS utilization in a neonatal intensive care unit. NPJ Digit Med. 2025 Jan 30; 8(1):72. Juarez EF, Peterson B, Sanford Kobayashi E, Gilmer S, Tobin LE, Schultz B, Lenberg J, Carroll J, Bai-Tong S, Sweeney NM, Beebe C, Stewart L, Olsen L, Reinke J, Kiernan EA, Reimers R, Wigby K, Tackaberry C, Yandell M, Hobbs C, Bainbridge MN. PMID: 39885315; PMCID: PMC11782664.

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A Machine Learning Decision Support Tool Optimizes Whole Genome Sequencing Utilization in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. medRxiv. 2024 Jul 07. Juarez EF, Peterson B, Kobayashi ES, Gilmer S, Tobin LE, Schultz B, Lenberg J, Carroll J, Bai-Tong S, Sweeney NM, Beebe C, Stewart L, Olsen L, Reinke J, Kiernan EA, Reimers R, Wigby K, Tackaberry C, Yandell M, Hobbs C, Bainbridge MN. PMID: 39006422; PMCID: PMC11245077.

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Comparing Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Infants With Patent Ductus Arteriosus Stenting Versus Blalock-Taussig-Thomas Shunt: A Pilot Study. J Soc Cardiovasc Angiogr Interv. 2024 May; 3(5):101355. El-Said H, Hussein A, Price K, Heibel J, Haley J, Haldeman S, Boulil Z, Brigger M, Rao A, Ganta S, Rao R, Nigro J, Sweeney N. PMID: 39132454; PMCID: PMC11307534.

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Reclassification of the Etiology of Infant Mortality With Whole-Genome Sequencing. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 02 01; 6(2):e2254069. Owen MJ, Wright MS, Batalov S, Kwon Y, Ding Y, Chau KK, Chowdhury S, Sweeney NM, Kiernan E, Richardson A, Batton E, Baer RJ, Bandoli G, Gleeson JG, Bainbridge M, Chambers CD, Kingsmore SF. PMID: 36757698; PMCID: PMC9912130.

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Med Medicine (General)
Translation:Humans
Preoperative Management of Neonates With Congenital Heart Disease. Pediatrics. 2022 11 01; 150(Suppl 2). Ashrafi AH, Mazwi M, Sweeney N, van Dorn CS, Armsby LB, Eghtesady P, Ringle M, Justice LB, Gray SB, Levy V. PMID: 36317975.

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Ped Pediatrics
Translation:Humans
Retrospective identification of prenatal fetal anomalies associated with diagnostic neonatal genomic sequencing results. Prenat Diagn. 2022 05; 42(6):705-716. Zhang-Rutledge K, Owen M, Sweeney NM, Dimmock D, Kingsmore SF, Laurent LC. PMID: 35141907; PMCID: PMC9886440.

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Obs Obstetrics
Translation:Humans
Rapid whole genome sequencing impacts care and resource utilization in infants with congenital heart disease. NPJ Genom Med. 2021 Apr 22; 6(1):29. Sweeney NM, Nahas SA, Chowdhury S, Batalov S, Clark M, Caylor S, Cakici J, Nigro JJ, Ding Y, Veeraraghavan N, Hobbs C, Dimmock D, Kingsmore SF. PMID: 33888711; PMCID: PMC8062477.

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Rapid Whole Genome Sequencing Has Clinical Utility in Children in the PICU. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2019 11; 20(11):1007-1020. Sanford EF, Clark MM, Farnaes L, Williams MR, Perry JC, Ingulli EG, Sweeney NM, Doshi A, Gold JJ, Briggs B, Bainbridge MN, Feddock M, Watkins K, Chowdhury S, Nahas SA, Dimmock DP, Kingsmore SF, Coufal NG, RCIGM Investigators. PMID: 31246743; PMCID: PMC6832787.

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Cri Critical Care Ped Pediatrics
Translation:Humans
A Randomized, Controlled Trial of the Analytic and Diagnostic Performance of Singleton and Trio, Rapid Genome and Exome Sequencing in Ill Infants. Am J Hum Genet. 2019 10 03; 105(4):719-733. Kingsmore SF, Cakici JA, Clark MM, Gaughran M, Feddock M, Batalov S, Bainbridge MN, Carroll J, Caylor SA, Clarke C, Ding Y, Ellsworth K, Farnaes L, Hildreth A, Hobbs C, James K, Kint CI, Lenberg J, Nahas S, Prince L, Reyes I, Salz L, Sanford E, Schols P, Sweeney N, Tokita M, Veeraraghavan N, Watkins K, Wigby K, Wigby K, Wong T, Chowdhury S, Wright MS, Dimmock D, RCIGM Investigators. PMID: 31564432; PMCID: PMC6817534.

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Gen Genetics
Translation:Humans
Diagnosis of genetic diseases in seriously ill children by rapid whole-genome sequencing and automated phenotyping and interpretation. Sci Transl Med. 2019 04 24; 11(489). Clark MM, Hildreth A, Batalov S, Ding Y, Chowdhury S, Watkins K, Ellsworth K, Camp B, Kint CI, Yacoubian C, Farnaes L, Bainbridge MN, Beebe C, Braun JJA, Bray M, Carroll J, Cakici JA, Caylor SA, Clarke C, Creed MP, Friedman J, Frith A, Gain R, Gaughran M, George S, Gilmer S, Gleeson J, Gore J, Grunenwald H, Hovey RL, Janes ML, Lin K, McDonagh PD, McBride K, Mulrooney P, Nahas S, Oh D, Oriol A, Puckett L, Rady Z, Reese MG, Ryu J, Salz L, Sanford E, Stewart L, Sweeney N, Tokita M, Van Der Kraan L, White S, Wigby K, Wigby K, Williams B, Wong T, Wright MS, Yamada C, Schols P, Reynders J, Hall K, Dimmock D, Veeraraghavan N, Defay T, Kingsmore SF. PMID: 31019026; PMCID: PMC9512059.

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Med Medicine (General)Sci Science
Translation:Humans
PPARγ Interaction with UBR5/ATMIN Promotes DNA Repair to Maintain Endothelial Homeostasis. Cell Rep. 2019 01 29; 26(5):1333-1343.e7. Li CG, Mahon C, Sweeney NM, Verschueren E, Kantamani V, Li D, Hennigs JK, Marciano DP, Diebold I, Abu-Halawa O, Elliott M, Sa S, Guo F, Wang L, Cao A, Guignabert C, Sollier J, Nickel NP, Kaschwich M, Cimprich KA, Rabinovitch M. PMID: 30699358; PMCID: PMC6436616.

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Cel Cell Biology Mol Molecular Biology
Translation:Humans Cells
The case for early use of rapid whole-genome sequencing in management of critically ill infants: late diagnosis of Coffin-Siris syndrome in an infant with left congenital diaphragmatic hernia, congenital heart disease, and recurrent infections. Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud. 2018 06; 4(3). Sweeney NM, Nahas SA, Chowdhury S, Campo MD, Jones MC, Dimmock DP, Kingsmore SF, RCIGM Investigators. PMID: 29549119; PMCID: PMC5983173.

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Gen Genetics
Translation:Humans
Rapid whole-genome sequencing decreases infant morbidity and cost of hospitalization. NPJ Genom Med. 2018; 3:10. Farnaes L, Hildreth A, Sweeney NM, Clark MM, Chowdhury S, Nahas S, Cakici JA, Benson W, Kaplan RH, Kronick R, Bainbridge MN, Friedman J, Gold JJ, Ding Y, Veeraraghavan N, Dimmock D, Kingsmore SF. PMID: 29644095; PMCID: PMC5884823.

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The NSIGHT1-randomized controlled trial: rapid whole-genome sequencing for accelerated etiologic diagnosis in critically ill infants. NPJ Genom Med. 2018; 3:6. Petrikin JE, Cakici JA, Clark MM, Willig LK, Sweeney NM, Farrow EG, Saunders CJ, Thiffault I, Miller NA, Zellmer L, Herd SM, Holmes AM, Batalov S, Veeraraghavan N, Smith LD, Dimmock DP, Leeder JS, Kingsmore SF. PMID: 29449963; PMCID: PMC5807510.

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Amphetamines promote mitochondrial dysfunction and DNA damage in pulmonary hypertension. JCI Insight. 2017 01 26; 2(2):e90427. Chen PI, Cao A, Miyagawa K, Tojais NF, Hennigs JK, Li CG, Sweeney NM, Inglis AS, Wang L, Li D, Ye M, Feldman BJ, Rabinovitch M. PMID: 28138562; PMCID: PMC5256132.

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Med Medicine (General)
Translation:Humans Animals Cells